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Jesse James may be a tough guy who builds motorcycles and performs death-defying stunts, but he's not above the pomp of the Oscars -- or being a plus-1 to the night's most celebrated actress, his wife Sandra Bullock.
Despite John Mayer's recent kiss-and-tell revelations about their sex life, Jessica Simpson says she remains, deep down, a trusting person.
Tiger Woods has apologized for repeatedly cheating on his wife -- and he's getting some support from an old flame who believes the golfer can be redeemed.
Simon Cowell scowling -- typical. Simon Cowell blushing? Indeed.
Was is just me, or did George Clooney seem upset at the Oscars last night?
Mark Linkous, the Virginia-born indie-rock fixture best known for his work in the lo-fi pysch-folk project Sparklehorse, as well as for collaborations with artists ranging from Danger Mouse to Tom Waits, Iggy Pop and PJ Harvey, died March 6 of a self-inflicted gun shot wound.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has defended his new musical from criticism on online forums even before its official opening on Tuesday night.
Betty White fans, your prayers have been answered. The former "Golden Girl" will appear on "Saturday Night Live" in the near future, she confirmed to PEOPLE at Elton John's annual Oscars viewing party on Sunday night.
Below is a complete list of the 82nd annual Academy Awards winners and nominees.
When Alec Baldwin ended the Oscars by slapping director Kathryn Bigelow on the backside, that summed things up, says John Anderson.
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AP - The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
AP - A former television producer pressured by debt and riven by jealousy admitted Tuesday he tried to extract vengeance and money by shaking down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staffers.
AP - Will the magic of the Phantom strike twice for Andrew Lloyd Webber?
AP - Annie Leibovitz, the photographer who mismanaged her fortune so badly that she faced losing legal rights to some of pop culture's most enduring images, has reached a long-term agreement with a private investment firm to help manage her debt and market her vast portfolio, both sides said Tuesday.
AP - Lindsay Lohan is feuding with the E-Trade babies.
AP - Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien's sidekick at "The Tonight Show," is acknowledging some ill will toward NBC and Jay Leno in the wake of the network's late-night upheaval.
AP - The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
AP - Authorities say a man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone during a screening of the film "Shutter Island" at a Southern California movie theater.
Reuters - Troubled rapper DMX was arrested in Arizona on Tuesday for violating his probation by regularly using illegal drugs during the last nine months, authorities said.
Reuters - Six companies are expected to make binding offers for storied Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by a newly set March 19 deadline, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
Playbill - Jill Paice, Rebecca Luker, George Dvorsky and Robert Petkoff will take part in a reading of the new musical adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's 1922 novel Enchanted April.
Reuters - Troubled rapper DMX was arrested in Arizona on Tuesday for violating his probation by regularly using illegal drugs during the last nine months, authorities said.
Fashion Wire Daily - One season after staging a Chanel runway show in a reconstructed Normandy farm, the house's designer Karl Lagerfeld presented its latest collection Tuesday, March 9, in Paris, in the midst of a custom-built iceberg, literally imported from Scandinavia.
AP - Sen. Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent years by winning the seat once held by Sen. Edward Kennedy, has a book deal.
The Newsroom - Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week's fourth wall this season by staging the world's first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn't the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son's New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.)
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At an industry screening of the forthcoming comedy “Tropic Thunder,” Tom Cruise brought down the house with his portrayal of a dirty-dancing movie mogul.
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A day after the Oscars, the Internet is blowing up with all sorts of snark directed at former Miami Herald features writer Elinor Burkett.
Things went David's way in the David and Goliath showdown that was the 82nd Academy Awards, with a low-budget indie few people saw toppling the biggest Hollywood blockbuster of all time.
What do you get when you bring together a Puerto Rican rocket scientist, a Dominican hypnotherapist, a Mexican lesbian and a Cuban-Venezuelan cougar? A stand-up comedy show by fierce Latinas unafraid to poke fun at their diverse ways of expressesing Latina-ness.
As with Annie Leibovitz, the current chronicler of Nescafé society at Vanity Fair, Edward Steichen lived large and was almost an equal to his iconic portrait subjects, who ranged from Winston Churchill to Amelia Earhart, Greta Garbo and Dorothy Parker. Steichen, subject of an elegant new show at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, was the highest-paid photographer of the time and danced on the precipice between high art, nightclub culture and fashion, valiantly making stabs at gravitas.
Fifty years ago, Johanna Moran's father, a University of Miami law professor, came across a summary of a bigamy trial in California at the turn of the century. Captivated, he thought it might be good fodder for his wife, an aspiring writer. Moran's mother never got around to writing the story, but she squirreled the abstract away and decades later presented it to her daughter, another aspiring writer. ''Daddy always said this would make a good story,'' her mother said.
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Kiddo (Chamaco), the made-in-Cuba movie premiering Tuesday at Miami International Film Festival, has no intention of charming its audiences.
Fifty years ago, Johanna Moran's father, a University of Miami law professor, came across a summary of a bigamy trial in California at the turn of the century. Captivated, he thought it might be good fodder for his wife, an aspiring writer. Moran's mother never got around to writing the story, but she squirreled the abstract away and decades later presented it to her daughter, another aspiring writer. ''Daddy always said this would make a good story,'' her mother said.
Almost half of Brillante Mendoza's controversial, galvanizing Kinatay unfolds during a car ride. Some drug dealers in Manila -- among them Peping (Coco Martin), a rookie cop who occasionally runs errands for the gang to help support his new wife and infant son -- have kidnapped and beaten a prostitute (Maria Isabel Lopez) who owes them money and are driving her to an undisclosed location.
Animals are an integral part of our lives and culture. We can find them in children's books as talking characters, in our living rooms snuggled up on the couch or on our dinner plates next to a heap of mashed potatoes. In Being with Animals, anthropologist Barbara J. King explains how this unique relationship came to be by tracing it back to our earliest human ancestors.
A few years ago, plots about subprime lending, short selling and the stock market would have been the sorts of themes to make readers' eyes glaze over. But that was before the economy collapsed, and Wall Street brokers went from being masters of the universe to pariahs.
Seventy-seven novels translated into 28 languages in 47 countries. Still, try finding a Danielle Steel romance reviewed in a major newspaper. We know the formula: Girl faces adversity and through plucky ingenuity and hard work, not to forget stunning looks, rises to power, prompting early detractors to eat crow.
''I'm reading Chang-Rae Lee's The Surrendered. It's a story of love and war, set in Korea in the 1950s, and New York and Italy in the '80s. I'm admiring the epic, sweeping feel, the intimacy with these unique characters and the way the novel manages to be classic, timeless and contemporary all at once.''
WEDNESDAY Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke and ''Beyond the Echo Chamber.'' 6:30 p.m. Books & Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables
Miami International Film Festival: Runs through March 14. Includes 115 emerging and established films with genres ranging from feature and documentary to short film, drama, animation and comics.
Things went David's way in the David and Goliath showdown that was the 82nd Academy Awards, with a low-budget indie few people saw toppling the biggest Hollywood blockbuster of all time.
As perhaps the best-known star in opera today, Renée Fleming could probably coast on her looks, voice and rapport with audiences. If ever there were an occasion just to mail in a crowd-pleasing series of arias by Puccini, Bellini and others, it was the concert Saturday at Festival of the Arts BOCA, an informal -- if expensive -- outdoor event at which Fleming's voice had to be carried over an amplification system.
A day after the Oscars, the Internet is blowing up with all sorts of snark directed at former Miami Herald features writer Elinor Burkett.
The production team for Elton John's Oscar after-party started preparing for the star-studded bash 10 days out. Believe me, it showed.
Whitney Port, best known for her roles on MTV's quasi-reality shows The Hills and The City, will make her Miami debut as a fashion designer at Gen Art's Fresh Faces in Fashion Show on Wednesday at FASHIONmiami, in the temporary structure set up at Northeast 39th Street and First Court in the Design District. Port, who will be supported by her City castmate Roxy Olin, joins five up-and-coming designers, Romina Heighes, By Smith, Lialia, Duskin and Fernando Carneiro; and accessories designers Rella Jewelry, Babette Epaulette and B. Rawlings. Show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $45. For more information go to genart.org or call 212-255-7300.
People Page correspondent Micaela Hood was on Twitter while on the red carpet and throughout her Oscar weekend stay in L.A. Here are some of her tweets.
Singer <strong>Mickey Gilley </strong>is 74. ABC newsman <strong>Charles Gibson </strong>is 67. Actress <strong>Linda Fiorentino </strong>is 50. Actress <strong>Juliette Binoche </strong>is 46. Actors <strong>Jean Louisa Kelly <I>(Yes Dear) </strong></I>and <strong>Kerr Smith <I>(Life Unexpected) </strong></I>are 38. Rapper <strong>Chingy </strong>is 30. Actress <strong>Brittany Snow </strong>is 24. Rapper <strong>Bow Wow </strong>is 23. Actor <strong>Luis Armand Garcia <I>(George Lopez) </strong></I>is 18.
WINE & DINNER 7 p.m. Anacapri Restaurant hosts a special five-course dinner with Tuscan wines from Terralsole Winery. All proceeds benefit the Haiti Relief Fund. $150 per person; tax-deductible. 2530 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables; 305-443-8388.
While the 2010 Academy Award categories were fairly easy to judge, the red carpet fashions at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday evening weren't so clear-cut.
Actress Lynn Redgrave is 67. Musician-actor Micky Dolenz of the Monkees is 65. Singer Peggy March is 62. Singer Gary Numan is 52. Actor Aidan Quinn is 51. Actress Camryn Manheim (The Practice) is 49. Singer Shawn Mullins is 42. Actress Andrea Parker (Less than Perfect) is 41. Actor Freddie Prinze Jr. (24) is 34. Actor James Van Der Beek (Mercy) is 33.
Designer sunglasses, exotic getaways, massages, diamond encrusted watches, fine wine, facial products and clothing were just some of the free swag stars picked up during Oscar week.
JAKE PAVELKA: The Bachelor is rumored to have cheated on fiancée Vienna Girardi. Would he really spoil a match made in heaven -- well, a match made in an ABC corporate board room?
Russ Weiner, the Rockstar Energy Drink founder who purchased music producer Scott Storch's former mansion on Miami Beach's Palm Island for $6.75 million, never set foot inside the place until he closed the sale.
Kiddo (Chamaco), the made-in-Cuba movie premiering Tuesday at Miami International Film Festival, has no intention of charming its audiences.
Almost half of Brillante Mendoza's controversial, galvanizing Kinatay unfolds during a car ride. Some drug dealers in Manila -- among them Peping (Coco Martin), a rookie cop who occasionally runs errands for the gang to help support his new wife and infant son -- have kidnapped and beaten a prostitute (Maria Isabel Lopez) who owes them money and are driving her to an undisclosed location.
Miami International Film Festival: Runs through March 14. Includes 115 emerging and established films with genres ranging from feature and documentary to short film, drama, animation and comics.
Things went David's way in the David and Goliath showdown that was the 82nd Academy Awards, with a low-budget indie few people saw toppling the biggest Hollywood blockbuster of all time.
Miami International Film Festival runs through Sunday. Includes 115 emerging and established films with genres ranging from feature and documentary to short film, drama, animation and comics.
Nobody likes having a surprise spoiled. But if you're looking for suspense and shock, the 82nd Academy Awards may not be the best place to find them.
Miami International Film Festival: Through March 14. Includes 115 emerging and established films with genres ranging from feature and documentary to short film, drama, animation and comics.
Here's a look at how Oscar nominees for best picture this year and in 2009 did at the box office before and after the nominations. The figures capture theaters in the United States and Canada and look at the period up until the weekend before the nominations, and then from the nominations up until the Sunday before the awards ceremony.
An organization of World War II veterans is unhappy with James Cameron's support for a discredited history of the atomic bombing of Japan that the director has optioned for a possible film.
BIG SCREEN Green Zone (R) -- Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) reunite for this thriller set during the early days of the Iraq War, about an Army inspector (Damon) searching -- and searching -- for the weapons of mass destruction supposed to have been hidden somewhere in the desert by Saddam Hussein.
Miami International Film Festival: Through March 14. Includes 115 emerging and established films ranging from features and documentaries to shorts, dramas, animation and comics plus the REEL Seminar Series of panels, workshops and master classes.
There were so many girls at Taylor Swift's sold-out concert at the BankAtlantic Center Sunday night that some of the men's bathrooms had to be converted for use by females. Not just teenage girls either, but preteens and younger, all the way down to preschoolers scuttling after their mothers, glowing with nerves and excitement, in hot pants and cowboy boots or glittery pink princess gear. The lines and crowds around the T-shirt tables filled the lobby -- not just a concert, but a Taylor shopping opportunity!
As perhaps the best-known star in opera today, Renée Fleming could probably coast on her looks, voice and rapport with audiences. If ever there were an occasion just to mail in a crowd-pleasing series of arias by Puccini, Bellini and others, it was the concert Saturday at Festival of the Arts BOCA, an informal -- if expensive -- outdoor event at which Fleming's voice had to be carried over an amplification system.
For nearly four decades, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's star has shone brightly on the international opera and concert scene. While she has devoted much of her time in recent seasons to training and mentoring young singers, the acclaimed soprano from New Zealand continues an active recital career that will bring her to South Florida Tuesday for her first performance in Miami-Dade or Broward in 16 years.
As Tall As Lions: On sale from 10 a.m. Friday; 7:30 p.m. May 1; $12; CR.
The Bamboozle Roadshow: On sale from 10 a.m. Saturday; 3:30 p.m. May 25; $32.50; CRUZAN.
You won't find music more intimately connected to its people and its country than vallenato, the irresistible accordion-powered folk music of Colombia's Magdalena River valley featured in the Miami Film Festival movie The Accordion Kings.
Justin Hayward can't wait to hit the beach. The guitarist/vocalist from rock band Moody Blues says he's tired of winter already.
In the intensive care unit at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood, 11-year-old Barbara Valencia is watching television from a hospital bed when Liset Alea, a musician from Miami, walks in and asks if she wants to hear a song.
An ancient Egyptian child's sarcophagus, a mummy and two Greek urns have been donated to the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach by the estate of celebrated First Amendment lawyer Dan Paul, who died in January at 85.
Tiger Woods is singing a new tune. His 13 1/2-minute apology has been chopped up and reconfigured online, spreading in music and video through social networks and on the radio.
Michael Barone, host of American Public Media's Pipedreams, brings a Pipe Organ Weekend to Miami, featuring music from around the world.
30 Seconds to Mars: On sale from 10 a.m. Saturday; 7 p.m. April 27; $27.75; FILLMORE.
Dave Matthews Band: On sale from 10 a.m. Friday; 7 p.m. July 31; $32-$67; CRUZAN.
Fifty years ago, Johanna Moran's father, a University of Miami law professor, came across a summary of a bigamy trial in California at the turn of the century. Captivated, he thought it might be good fodder for his wife, an aspiring writer. Moran's mother never got around to writing the story, but she squirreled the abstract away and decades later presented it to her daughter, another aspiring writer. ''Daddy always said this would make a good story,'' her mother said.
All the mystery and black-comic menace that flow through the plays of Nobel laureate Harold Pinter are present in The Dumb Waiter, a 1957 one-act now being presented by The Promethean Theatre in Davie.
What do you get when you bring together a Puerto Rican rocket scientist, a Dominican hypnotherapist, a Mexican lesbian and a Cuban-Venezuelan cougar? A stand-up comedy show by fierce Latinas unafraid to poke fun at their diverse ways of expressesing Latina-ness.
As with Annie Leibovitz, the current chronicler of Nescafé society at Vanity Fair, Edward Steichen lived large and was almost an equal to his iconic portrait subjects, who ranged from Winston Churchill to Amelia Earhart, Greta Garbo and Dorothy Parker. Steichen, subject of an elegant new show at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, was the highest-paid photographer of the time and danced on the precipice between high art, nightclub culture and fashion, valiantly making stabs at gravitas.
David Grann likes obsessives. In the beginning of The Lost City of Z, his excellent book about vanished Amazon explorer Percy Fawcett, he explains how he got interested in Fawcett's story. The adventurous, Indiana Jones side of Fawcett and the men who then spent much of their lives trying to find out what happened to him weren't what drew Grann to the subject. Their obsession attracted him.
Two exhibitions open Thursday at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami: Ceal Floyer: Auto Focus, a mid-career survey and Floyer's first solo museum exhibition in the United States, and Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image, the first comprehensive U.S. museum survey of the New York-based artist, a pioneer in the use of digital technologies in contemporary art.
The son of legendary photographer Ansel Adams is suing the Fresno (Calif.) Metropolitan Museum to keep the now-defunct museum from auctioning six of his father's prints.
Popular, the title of the perkiest song in Wicked, has also become the perfect one-word description of the show itself. Since opening on Broadway in 2003, the musical has already made three visits to South Florida and has just begun its fourth local run at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.
This year's Here & Now Festival, the annual showcase of new work by Miami artists, is one of the strongest in years. The three new pieces and one work in progress that showed at the Adrienne Arsht Center's Carnival Studio Theater on Thursday night simmered with ideas and vibrant imagery.
Broadway Across America has just lifted the curtain on its 2010-2011 touring Broadway season at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, and it's a lineup full of baby boomer-friendly big musicals rooted in the past.
Despite what the name implies, Miami Light Project's Here & Now Festival is not all about immediate gratification. Rather the yearly festival, running this weekend at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Perfoming Arts, is all about taking a chance on the future.
Brickell has been quietly stealing some of South Beach's thunder for some time now, but last month the deal might have been sealed with the opening of Barú Urbano in the heart of Mary Brickell Village.
Score one victory for Burger King franchisees in their ongoing battle with the Miami-based company.<p/> Burger King's National Franchisee Association reached an agreement with Burger King that puts an end to the company's plan to take a portion of the millions of dollars in annual rebates franchisees get from soda companies.
EAT: I stalked Latin Burger and Taco for weeks on Twitter and Facebook, frustrated because the gourmet food truck never came near my neighborhood. Then, one late Tuesday afternoon, a post went up: The truck was parked just south of Kendall Drive on U.S. 1, 6-8 p.m.
The new Trata Greek Taverna on Las Olas Boulevard isn't the typical belly-dancing, confetti-tossing, plate-breaking Mediterranean restaurant. Its spell is more subtle, cast by a charming staff led by co-owner Dimitrios ``Jimmy the Greek'' Tsiakanikas, who warmly greets patrons with a ``Welcome home.''
Sometimes you just want your veggies. And sometimes your dining companions don't eat meat. These three restaurants offer healthful options that will appeal to vegetarians -- and make the rest of us feel virtuous.
West Indians with a hankering for macaroni pie or doubles can satisfy it at Timehri, a small restaurant in a Pembroke Pines shopping plaza.<p/> The friendly, bare-bones eatery is named for the city where Guayana's international airport is located, but most of owner Cindy Narain's customers are from Trinidad. Separated by only 400 miles, the two Caribbean countries have a shared East Indian, African, Chinese and European heritage.
THURSDAY Carnaval Miami Cooking Contest: Home cooks, high school and vocational students may enter one dish of eight portions of pork prepared with the flavors of their native country. Send recipe by Monday with your name, address and phone number to ymorejon@carnavalmiami.com or Kiwanis Club of Little Havana, 1400 SW First St., Miami, FL 33135. 305-644-8888.
The last we saw of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival's 2010 edition, Guy Fieri was hosting the closing party (aptly named Luna En Fuego) at the beach area in front of the Gansevoort South hotel.
Eva Longoria was seen having lunch at Bongos Cuban Cafe Friday afternoon with pals JR and Loren Ridinger and Emilio Estefan. Longoria was in town for a meeting of the commission to which she and Estefan were appointed by President Barack Obama to create the American Latino Museum.
So what's a mother of five young children to do? Open a restaurant, of course.<p/> Meet Barclay Graebner, owner of Morgan's at 28 NE 29th St. in Wynwood. The ``modern comfort food'' eatery (located in a two-story lilac building) opened in December for breakfast and lunch, and recently added dinner to the menu.
Star chef Daniel Boulud had promised to make a batch of scrambled eggs with caviar for some of his buddies -- Bobby Flay, Paul Bartolotta and Marcus Samuelsson among them. But here it was, 3 in the morning on Saturday, and Boulud was still trying to scare up the eggs.
There is one extremely important thing to know about Giuliana Rancic. The woman cannot be humiliated. Consider the moment from E!'s Golden Globes pre-show when cameras captured Rancic on the red carpet screaming like an unhinged, microphone-wielding stalker after an on-the-move George Clooney and his Italian girlfriend, Elisabetta Canalis. (''Elisabetta! Soy Italiana! George, come on!'')
BIG SCREEN Green Zone (R) -- Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) reunite for this thriller set during the early days of the Iraq War, about an Army inspector (Damon) searching -- and searching -- for the weapons of mass destruction supposed to have been hidden somewhere in the desert by Saddam Hussein.
Q: Years ago -- possibly 35 or 40 -- there was a Western comedy with Kirk Douglas as the ''villain'' and Ann-Margret, I believe as the damsel in distress. The handsome stranger may have been Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie seemed a sort of parody of the Road Runner cartoons. I would love to find a copy.
Jake Pavelka chose Vienna Giraldi on "The Bachelor" finale, concluding his lovey-dovey stint on the ABC reality television show, just as he prepared to join another: "Dancing with the Stars."
Iconic metal rocker-turned-horror film director Rob Zombie makes his foray into your living rooms Monday night with his TV directorial debut on CSI Miami. The 45-year-old Massachusetts native, famous for hits including Dragula, Living Dead Girl and Never Going to Stop, has been directing music videos since 1990, and his first feature film -- the bloodfest House of 1,000 Corpses -- garnered some good reviews. Making the transition from behind the mike to behind the camera was a natural progression.
BIG SCREEN Alice in Wonderland (PG) -- Even by director Tim Burton's typically surreal standards, this movie of what happens when 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns to the magical land she visited as a child looks pretty trippy. Johnny Depp is the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter is the Red Queen, Michael Sheen is the White Rabbit, and Alan Rickman is the Caterpillar. Oh, and the whole thing is in 3-D. OK, we're sold.
Q: Who did Vanna White replace on Wheel of Fortune and in what year was it?
A: According to The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows, the hosts of Wheel of Fortune when it premiered in 1975 were Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford. Woolery gave way to Pat Sajak in 1981. Stafford left the show in October 1982. The following December, after several women filled in, Vanna White became the permanent letter-turner.
Listening to tales of her roommate's erratic new boyfriend -- he never calls, doesn't seem to have a job, and shows up only after dark -- the young woman nods sympathetically: ''This sounds more like a horror movie than a romantic one.'' Good guess, and she hadn't even seen the fangs yet.
BIG SCREEN Cop Out (R) -- In his first outing as a filmmaker for hire, Kevin Smith directed but did not write this comedy about two New York City cops (Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan) tracking down a thief who has stolen a priceless baseball card. The film's original title, A Couple of Dicks, had to be changed after TV networks refused to air ads.
A young man arrived at Ty Burrell's hotel room to stock the minibar and immediately recognized the co-star of the ABC comedy Modern Family.
Shutter Island (R) -- Delayed from October, Martin Scorsese's first feature film since his Oscar-winning The Departed centers on U.S. marshals (Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo) who investigate the disappearance of a prisoner at a remote asylum for the criminally insane. The movie downplays the surprise twists from the Dennis Lehane novel in favor of atmospherics, a creepy Gothic mood, DiCaprio's intense performance and Scorsese's bravura directorial stylings.
Sen. Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent years by winning the seat once held by Sen. Edward Kennedy, has a book deal.
Bob Barker has donated $2.5 million to help the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals open a new location in Los Angeles.
Dave Letterman can heave a huge sigh of relief after the guilty plea Tuesday of a TV producer charged with trying to extort him.
A suburban New York City writer who offered jobs to women from Hungary, France and Brazil has been accused of sexually abusing them.
The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
Models in head-to-toe yeti suits picked their way around towering but quickly melting icebergs, sloshing through a deep puddle of Arctic melt in their shaggy fake fur.
A new musical video game lets players strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on a fake instrument.
Andy Whitfield, who plays the title role in the Starz Original series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The British-born actor will begin treatment immediately.
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for March 1-7. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
While special events are doing very well for broadcasters - capped off by an Oscars telecast that was the most-watched entertainment program in five years - their day-to-day schedules are hurting.
Lindsay Lohan is feuding with the E-Trade babies.
Renowned soprano who sang at the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana performs works by Handel, Debussy and Vivaldi, accompanied by pianist Brian Zeger.
Veteran Rastafarian band pays tribute to the martyrs, along with Fourth Dimension.
One of the greatest guitarists of all time takes the stage, choosing from timeless classics including Sunshine of Your Love, White Room, Crossroads, After Midnight, Layla, I Shot the Sheriff, Cocaine, Wonderful Tonight, Lay Down Sally and Tears in Heaven. Oh, and the opening act is no slouch: The Who frontman Roger Daltrey, fresh off the band's bracing performance at the Super Bowl.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A television producer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from U.S. talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveal his affairs with women who worked on his late-night program on CBS.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow wrapped her fingers around that little golden man called Oscar on Sunday and cracked one of Hollywood's glass ceilings, but truly shattering it may take more time.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - After whirlwind goodbyes to fans, diminutive U.S. rapper Lil Wayne was sentenced to one year in jail on Monday after he pleaded guilty on a gun possession charge in a 2007 incident.
LONDON (Reuters) - The sequel to "Phantom of the Opera", one of the biggest musicals of all time, opens in London on Tuesday amid disquiet among die-hard "phans" who have been posting opinions online since previews began two weeks ago.
LONDON (Reuters) - Pink Floyd on Tuesday launched legal action against record label EMI in a case that centres around royalty payments and how music is sold in the digital age.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Avatar" may have failed to repeat the Academy Award success for "Titanic," but James Cameron's latest hit film proved once again: nothing draws eyeballs to the Oscars like the nomination of a blockbuster.
LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran British singer Cliff Richard will mark his 70th birthday with the release of an album of jazz and swing music, he announced on Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has arranged a deal with a private equity firm to sort out her debts, the Financial Times reported in its Tuesday edition.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson have been cast in the suspense film "The Ledge," which began shooting Monday in Baton Rouge, La.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Twelve years ago, James Cameron declared he was "king of the world" when "Titanic" won the Oscar for best picture.
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TheWrap: With DeGeneres on board — and Simon on the way out — Randy and Kara seem to have decided it's time to start trying harder.
Now, with Jay Leno freshly reinstalled at "Tonight," Letterman is spared concerns about lawsuits to concentrate on resuming a faceoff with Leno for viewers that began in 1993.
Robert “Joe” Halderman has pleaded guilty to trying to shake down David Letterman over the comic’s sexual affairs.
The outspoken Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver is the latest NFL star to join the “Dancing with the Stars” fray, but while the show doesn’t start for two more weeks, he’s already got a message for the judges.
The executive director of the film academy says Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
The actress Lindsay Lohan has sued E*Trade Financial Corp for $100 million, saying a "milkaholic" baby girl who appeared in a recent commercial was modeled after her.
There is a special challenge for a child of a star or stars in coping with the harsh glare of the spotlight while looking for his or her own niche. Plenty of high-profile stories illustrate that.
Andy Whitfield, who plays the title role in the Starz series, will begin treatment immediately. Doctors say the cancer was detected in its early stages and is "very treatable."
Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien's sidekick at "The Tonight Show," is acknowledging some ill will toward NBC and Jay Leno in the wake of the network's late-night upheaval.
A German man who tried to blackmail supermodel Cindy Crawford with a photo of her bound and gagged 7-year-old daughter was sentenced to two years in jail Tuesday.
Marie Osmond’s 18-year-old son was remembered at a funeral service Monday with fond words, laughter and music from his famous singing family.
Ten plastic surgery procedures in one day may have made "The Hills" star the happiest she's ever been, but it also made her fodder for some comics. Now she’s in on the joke.
Simon Cowell opened up about his engagement to makeup artist Mezghan Hussainy during an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on Monday night.
For as much as "The Hurt Locker" was the critics' darling, it had three major strikes against it in its battle against the mighty James Cameron's "Avatar."
The rapper, who has been one of the music genre's most prolific and profitable figures in recent years, pleaded guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon.
CBS says it will be the first time an anchor has had a colonoscopy live on network television and Katie Couric plans to be with Smith as he prepares for the procedure.
"Love Never Dies" picks up the story 10 years on, with disfigured genius the Phantom relocated to the bright lights of New York's Coney Island and still besotted with beautiful soprano Christine Daae.
Fans have been clamoring for White, 88, to do “SNL” — an idea she called "ridiculous" just a few weeks ago — ever since her comic turn in a Snickers ad during the Super Bowl.
The 40-year-old comedian slipped backstage while the show's musical guest performed. When he emerged for the next sketch, his beard was gone, with a mustache in its place.
Lindsay Lohan attends a Vogue party in Paris, Lil Wayne is cuffed in a New York courtroom, Hugh Grant tees off in Abu Dhabi and more.
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The deal accepted by Robert Joel Halderman brought to a close an embarrassing chapter for Letterman, whose on-air confession in the fall triggered scrutiny of his behavior behind the scenes.
Season 4 turned into a soapy, choppy tangle of story lines. A re-tool is promised.
Season 4 turned into a soapy, choppy tangle of story lines. A re-tool is promised.
Howard Stern has declared the era of Gabourey Sidibe officially over.
Howard Stern has declared the era of Gabourey Sidibe officially over.
Fresh off Disney's massive success with Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," Warner Bros. wants to remake another childhood classic. Like, really classic.
Miley Cyrus wants you to know that her mind is, like, way more profound than yours, and not just because she writes songs in her sleep
Miley Cyrus wants you to know that her mind is, like, way more profound than yours, and not just because she writes songs in her sleep
What's on tap for Bigelow, Bridges, Bullock, Mo'Nique and more?
It's a Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart scene!
It's at first a bit jarring to see Jeff Bridges in such a fast-paced, futuristic setting.
Asked during a question-and-answer session whether a string of flops would make him rethink the movie business, Moonves said no.
The incident happened after complaints about a cellphone call.
Hollywood stars sexy and over 40
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Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland enters the UK and Ireland box office at number one, with record opening takings for a 3D movie.
Pink Floyd launch legal action in the High Court against EMI over payment of online royalties and marketing of their music.
A US TV producer pleads guilty to attempting to blackmail US chat show host David Letterman over his affairs.
Record labels say they want to counter the "myth" that artists can forge a successful career on their own in the digital age.
This year's Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles was the most watched in the US for five years, early figures suggest.
Music Week magazine publishes an open letter to BBC boss Mark Thompson urging him to rethink his plans to axe 6 Music.
Rapper Lil Wayne is sentenced to a year in prison after admitting possessing a gun, discovered on his tour bus in 2007.
T in the Park festival has also added Jamie T to its line-up and confirmed The Prodigy and Black Eyed Peas will headline the Radio 1/NME stage.
R&B singer D'Angelo is arrested in New York after allegedly trying to pay for sex with a police officer posing as a prostitute.
The work of the eight international artists shortlisted for the fourth £40,000 Artes Mundi prize go on display at National Museum Cardiff.
Hundreds of people are being asked to shed their clothes to celebrate a Greater Manchester art gallery's 10th birthday.
Acclaimed British tenor Philip Langridge die at the age of 70 following a brief illness.
Fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who died last month aged 40, wins a Brit Insurance Design Award 2010 for his latest spring/summer catwalk show.
Unemployment records found in a skip which poke fun at a young Sir Tom Jones are being auctioned.
Dave Grohl says his band have started writing songs for their next album and that they're planning to start recording in September.
Singer Mark Linkous, frontman for the US band Sparklehorse, takes his own life, according to his family.
Tinchy Stryder, Chase & Status and Ellie Goulding join MIA to play at this summer's Underage Festival in London's east end.
BBC Sound of 2010 winner Ellie Goulding goes straight to the top of the album chart with her debut release Lights.
Comedy series Police Academy, which spawned a series of films and a TV show, is set to return to to the big screen, reports say.
Actor Michael J Fox is to be honoured by Sweden's Karolinska Institute for his work to raise funds and awareness for Parkinson's Disease.
Harrowing drama Precious sweeps to victory at the Independent Spirit Awards, taking five prizes including best feature.
Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park tells the BBC that he would like to make a Plasticine animation in 3D.
New Doctor Who actor Matt Smith will meet fans on a UK tour showcasing the first episode of the upcoming series of the show.
Women are outnumbered two to one by men on British television, a study commissioned by Channel 4 finds.
BBC One cookery show Saturday Kitchen Live has been rapped by Ofcom after a guest chef swore live on-air while cooking an omelette.
Boyzone singer Mickey Graham becomes the latest celebrity to be voted off ITV1 show Dancing on Ice.
Pop duo Goldfrapp are back with their fifth album, Head First, sounding happy and relaxed. What happened?
Are you sitting uncomfortably in the West End?
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